Getting Down to Business

I am about to enter my 5th year as a high school librarian, and I want to be more organized this year.  I feel as if I am fulfilling the academic needs of my patrons and following the school calendar, but I haven't been as good at celebrating what I call the "Library Calendar." I, along with my 2 colleagues (Karen & Blanca), do our best to lure the students into the library with our various clubs, chess boards, art projects, and programs. However, I think I would like to participate in some of the American Library Association's library activites this year.  Last Spring, we hosted a "Hunger Games Family Night," and we did some fun teen activities during National Library Week, but I think I'd like to do more.  In order to do that, I realized I needed to map out my year.

So I took my notebook that Karen gives me and Blanca every year...and I set out to do just that.

Some people like to start with a calendar and fill it in, but I needed a generic space to brainstorm and align my calendars...the academic, the school events, and the library calendars.  It started out looking like this...

After that, I went month by month and made a list of what we wanted to do....

So to be honest, that is what I have so far. I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew.  Last year our library participated in National Library Week.  This year I want to participate in Banned Book week, Teen Read Week, Teen Tech Week, and School Library Month.  We start back to school on Monday for staff development.  We'll see how this goes!